{"title":"5 Increasing Access to Tertiary and Higher Education in Rural Communities: Experiences from Tasmania and New Zealand","authors":"M. Noble, J. Grant","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000Access to higher education (HE) in rural and coastal communities has been a developing area of research over the last two decades. This chapter looks at the particular issues of access and participation facing tertiary institutions in the context of Tasmania (Australia) and New Zealand. Both locations in the southern hemisphere have particular cultural, social and geographical circumstances and are characterised by dispersed rural and regional communities over extensive geographical areas and considerable tracts of remote territory. They share strong similarities to the issues facing access and inclusion in HE in the northern hemisphere and globally.","PeriodicalId":199380,"journal":{"name":"Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115605633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":199380,"journal":{"name":"Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131480417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"7 ‘So You Want to Be an Academic?’ The Experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Undergraduates in a UK Creative Arts University","authors":"Siobhan Clay","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181009","url":null,"abstract":"This case study focuses on student conceptions of becoming an academic, and their perceptions of their institution’s role in supporting them, or creating barriers, on this journey. In-depth qualitative research was conducted with nine undergraduate Fine Art and Design students from a range of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and White backgrounds, to understand the impact which tutor relationships; the curriculum; creative pedagogies; and the invisibility of diverse teaching staff might have on their journey through, and sense of belonging within, the academy. It is positioned amid the current BAME attainment gap in UK Higher Education (HE) and takes as its context, the discourse on the lack of BAME academics in UK universities: an issue more pronounced in the creative disciplines (ECU, 2017a:158). \u0000 \u0000The aim of the study was to understand how institutional practices might support or hinder students returning to the academy as staff, using critical race theory, whiteness, and cultural capital frameworks to situate the research. The findings present an overwhelming interest among the students in teaching as a future career, and makes a case that students’ motivations and aspirations to teach, if fostered and supported, could partially remediate the current lack of BAME staff in HE.","PeriodicalId":199380,"journal":{"name":"Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121438491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"9 Collective Responsibility and Collaborative Action: Universities and Employers in Pursuit of Social Mobility","authors":"N. Miller","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000The correlation between social background, and future educational and occupational outcomes, is strengthening in the UK. It is getting harder to ignore the implications, as they manifest themselves in our economic and political fabric. Even when talented young people overcome barriers at a particular stage of their journey to the workplace, new barriers present themselves at the next. For example, it has been assumed historically that gaining access to university has a levelling effect: once you are in, you will get ahead. This is a myth. Those, for whom the cost of higher education is most significant, often benefit the least. This chapter explores why this is currently the case, and what can be done to narrow the gap in graduate outcomes by socio-economic background.","PeriodicalId":199380,"journal":{"name":"Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127229543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"13 A Teacher´s Experience of the Transformative Pedagogic Effect of Part-time Degree Study","authors":"G. Sharpling, Neil Murray","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181015","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the learning experience of a tutor at a UK university when undertaking a part-time, online degree in Health and Social Care over a seven-year period. Retrospective reflection and sociological theory are applied as methodologies to identify several key challenges faced by mature, widening participation students, involving identity, literacy, workload and assessment. The chapter suggests how an awareness of these issues helps one to empathise more effectively with mature students, the better to promote success and retention. It is suggested that other tutors stand to benefit from engaging in this type of online learning experience to further their own empathy with mature students.","PeriodicalId":199380,"journal":{"name":"Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115936594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"8 Students’ Views of Tertiary Education as ‘Access to Success’: A Case Study of a Multicultural College in Israel","authors":"B. Schaedel","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000This study examines students’ views of the institutional learning environments, which add to their academic and social success, in a multicultural college. The relationships between the students’ background characteristics and their academic skills, self-efficacy and interactions with the academic and administrative staff are analysed utilising quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings indicate that the students encounter difficulties in their academic studies because of low attainment in academic literacy. However, students with higher self-efficacy actively seek assistance to advance their academic skills, whilst students with lower self-efficacy circumvent academic-assistance resources available on campus. Nonetheless, most students are motivated to succeed in their academic studies and continue them further. \u0000 \u0000The study concludes with recommendations for future measures to enhance students’ self-efficacy and the specific needs of students of diverse ethnic and national origin.","PeriodicalId":199380,"journal":{"name":"Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128730012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"15 Advocating for Access: World Access to Higher Education Day and Beyond","authors":"G. Atherton","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000Higher education (HE) should be at the forefront of attempts to navigate a route through the confluence of disruptive forces affecting the world in the early twenty-fist century. The early part of the century has seen inequality, in particular, return to the fore. In its survey of over 200 global experts worldwide, the World Economic Forum (2017) stated that: \u0000 \u0000Growing income and wealth disparity is seen by respondents as the trend most likely to determine global developments over the next 10 years. (p. 11) \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Yet, HE remains a bastion of inequality increasingly obsessed with rankings, which openly celebrate elitism in an era where elites are increasingly derided. Fostering inequality and celebrating elitism are becoming high-risk strategies in the midst of the post-crash populism of the 2010s. There are other routes open to what HE can be; safer and better ones for HE itself. However, it will take global advocacy and action if they are to be followed. This chapter presents the key evidence for, and a model, for such advocacy.","PeriodicalId":199380,"journal":{"name":"Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116019392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2 Access to the Elite","authors":"Emilie Sundorph, D. Vasil’ev, Louis Coiffait","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000It is argued by many that one of the keys to social mobility lies in widening access to institutions, which educate most of the ‘elite’. In England, around 30 of the most highly selective universities are responsible for the higher education of a large proportion of those ending up in the most well-paid and powerful positions. These institutions have historically recruited most of their students from middle- or upper-class backgrounds, and still struggle to create more diverse student bodies. Investments in (so-called) widening participation (WP) have increased significantly, and institutions widely advertise their commitment to diversity. Still, increasing the proportion of students from lower socio-economic backgrounds is progressing incredibly slowly. \u0000 \u0000This chapter investigates how highly selective universities can best be held to account for their contribution to social mobility. It explores the direction of WP spending and the case for implementing a framework ensuring that institutions seek to achieve value for money. It ranks the progress of the most selective universities, and by investigating the approach taken at the most successful one, the LSE recommends a greater focus on contextualised admissions.","PeriodicalId":199380,"journal":{"name":"Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123721540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1 Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate’s Egg?","authors":"Stuart Billingham","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":199380,"journal":{"name":"Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123329933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3 Access to Higher Education in South Africa","authors":"Clara Gwatirera","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-836-120181003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000Nelson Mandela once argued that ‘education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world’. This sentiment is echoed by governments and citizens across the world. Education can help us to better understand the world around us and our place in it, equipping us to push for positive social, economic and political changes. \u0000 \u0000Calls for accessible Higher Education (HE) in South (and the rest of) Africa make perfect sense: a university degree is a passport to a better life for those who have it. For example, the unemployment rate for those with a university degree is significantly lower than for those without. In addition, university campuses offer more than just taught knowledge: they are a place where young people build networks, relationships and values (see, e.g. May & Jones in this volume, Chapter 5). They are where the future business, political and intellectual leaders of a country are forged. \u0000 \u0000Africa, generally, is faced with numerous serious challenges regarding access to HE, and this chapter explores some of the key ones with particular reference to South Africa.","PeriodicalId":199380,"journal":{"name":"Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education: A Curate's Egg?","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114854416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}